Welcome to Mx Burlesque Australia

Founded in 2009, MBA held its first competition held July 2010 in Brisbane’s historic Old Museum. The state finals in 2010 saw some of Australia’s finest performers take to the state, producing a quality of performances on a grand scale.

The grand finals were held at Sydney’s iconic Enmore Theatre and yielded a phenomenal response from the Australian burlesque community. With performers creating big-stage acts, it was clear that MBA was going to be an important platform for Australian performers to take their visions to big stages.

A’dora Derriere took over as Executive Producer of the whole competition in 2018. Since then, the competition has undergone several revisions, with new rules, revised categories and a panel-based selection process. In 2022, the Miss Burlesque & Mr Boylesque competitions merged to relaunch as a fully inclusive competition, renamed Mx Burlesque.